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Widger Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$4.2MEducation$3.0MCivil Rights$2.1MPublic Benefit$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.2MYouth Development$420kInternational$60kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $772k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.9M
$230,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STAND TOGETHER FOUNDATION$1,700,000
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION DBA VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION$916,500
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL$250,000
ELWYN$247,296
THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$230,000
FREIRE FOUNDATION$100,000
MINDFUL PHILANTHROPY$95,000
HOPEWORKS N CAMDEN INC$50,000
ONE MIND INSTITUTE$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $851k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $442k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $441k → 10%ELWYN: $247k → 10%ELWYN: $167k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of Widger Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Widger Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 11 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$6.6M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+14%

Still filing today

73%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceInternationalPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TE
    THE ELWYN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +8%
  • EO
    ELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE
    2× · 2020–2024 · $414k · revenue +29%
  • PY
    PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $370k · revenue +901%

Funded once

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +29%
  • PM
    PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M · revenue +1%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2023 · $259k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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4
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
9
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
10
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elwyn Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%41%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,545

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $2,000,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC — $1,166,500 · EducationVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $480,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSY…FREIRE FOUNDATION — $400,000 · EducationFREIRE FOUNDATION+1 more — $50,000 · EducationSTAND TOGETHER FOUNDATION ARLINGTON — $2,050,000 · OtherSTAND TOGETHER FOUND…UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $100,000 · Other+7 more — $155,000 · Other+7 moreTHE ELWYN FOUNDATION — $1,734,541 · Human ServicesTHE ELWYN FOUNDATI…ELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE — $414,023 · Human ServicesELWYN OF PENNSYLVA…PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC — $1,100,000 · HealthPHOENIX MULTISPOR…MINDFUL PHILANTHROPY INC — $357,500 · HealthMINDFUL PHILANTHR…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $259,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HO…THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH — $243,750 · HealthTHE FEINSTEIN INS…+3 more — $70,000 · HealthStand Together Foundation — $1,700,000 · Public BenefitStand Together…PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC — $370,000 · Recreation & SportsAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $200,000 · Social Science
Education$4,096,500Other$2,305,000Human Services$2,148,564Health$2,030,250Public Benefit$1,700,000Recreation & Sports$370,000Social Science$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ELWYN FOUNDATION — $1,734,541 over 3y, 15% of budgetStand Together Foundation — $1,700,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC — $1,166,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC — $1,100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $480,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE — $414,023 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREIRE FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC — $370,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMINDFUL PHILANTHROPY INC — $357,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $259,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH — $243,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $200,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetONE MIND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable E…Lincoln Financial Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA13.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Widger Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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